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- ukit20
- Surprising to see digital slump so muchqTime
- It's not slumping, CD sales (and overall sales) areukit2
- Interesting how vinyl and 8 tracks pulled in almost as much in the 70s as CDs did in the early 2000sukit2
- interesting how the industry slumped in the mid 80's.... must have been the hair metal from hell
vaxorcist - There was a recession in the early/mid eighties.ETM
- Those were the days of cheap Compact Cassetteshaft
- http://www.gratuitou…jaylarson
- Music will continue to bomb with the garbage being produced.utopian
- Most/many are just fine with Pandora. I don't have a single MP3 on my phone, not one.formed
- lowimpakt0
- ^lowimpakt
- oooh, wish I went there when I was in Cardiff years ago.....vaxorcist
- if i'm ever in cardiff (unlikely) i'll be sure to pop inhans_glib
- Well obviously, the welsh haven't discovered the Internet yetset
- < This, what on earth is the point now the internet existsanimatedgif
- Was dissapointed I could find anything in there I wanted to buy when I went there.webazoot
- that sounds very dissapointingset
- ah... the mindset of that old movie High Fidelity, describes 90's Wicker Park Record geeks perfectly....vaxorcist
- GeorgesII0
WHO FUCKN CARES,
Next
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- BaskerviIle0
- couldn't be more bang onBaskerviIle
- always so fucking goodanimatedgif
- Yes he is.
Can't wait til he's old and angry.mikotondria3 - Dude shops in my branch of Sainsbury's. He's fatter than he looks on TV.detritus
- vaxorcist0
interesting twitter feed.... anyone remember FuckedCompany.com?
^^ that's why many companies that engage in mass layoffs ask everyone to report to a different location one morning, ask them for all the passwords, change the passwords, then fire them and make sure the office doors are locked....
...this is pretty much what happened to a friend who worked at a video game company that got ONE BAD REVIEW for a game, they laid off 60 people a few weeks later.... but no interns running twitter able to talk about it...
- i_monk0
- it was Poppy Rose Cleere
All gone now:
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albums - You had a job, the company is going down, your job ended. Employment is not a human right, go find a new job.shaft
- it was Poppy Rose Cleere
- ukit20
Remember the days when you had to shop for music at stores that sold CDs for $16-20 a piece? These companies enjoyed a golden age, and now they are being wiped away by technological change/progress.
- yupmonospaced
- A necessary step. It was fun while it lasted.set
- pang0
Back in the early 90s I used to buy music every week from my local HMV. And I remember they weren't all that cheap, e.g. CD album typically £15-ish, or above if it was an import or Ltd Edt. Can you imagine anyone paying those prices now? Nope. I don't think so.
HMV cashed in when they could... then along came the internet. The board didn't really pay much attention, especially when the iTunes etc all kicked in alongside the likes of play.com, amazon.com. Then the HMV-cash-cow died.
Moooo... ugh.
- Horp0
Goodbye Blockbuster Video too. You will DEFINITELY not be missed you moralising, censorial bunch of hypocrites.
- albums0
Amoeba for life.
World's. Largest. Independent.
- DaveO0
I used to love the Oxford Street store, good selection of dance music that was already out & popular, and actually a cracking indie 7" section.
I think it's all cyclical though – the giants die because they can't support their inflated infrastructure, perhaps the independents will return? Maybe only vinyl will survive as a tangible format against the CD?
- Physical formats will still exist in indie shops that can adapt to market changes quicker than the giantspig
- pig0
- Horp0
They did put a large foot on the throats of independents, but I doubt the independents would have survived until now anyway. One of the longest standing and most respected independents here in Brighton disappeared within the last 12 months... Revolver Records... and I'd wager that was a result of online rather than the two HMV stores in Brighton. Revolver's stock in trade was hugely different to HMVs.
I hadn't been into a HMV for a few years, but went into the main Brighton branch over Christmas. I could not believe the state of the shop. The had attempted to evolve and diversify I believe (in response to earlier comments) and had given over 50% of the store racks to second hand CDs, DVDs and hardware. Ironically it felt a tiny little bit like the first days of Urban Outfitters, when it was largely second hand, and (briefly) felt like a cool new un-brand. Not a good fit for HMV though... it just smacked of desperation.
They hacked the store into 50% jumble sale, 30% electronic gadgets and peripherals, and 20% was left for the core product of music. The music was so tightly crammed in that it largely all had to be re-classified as Pop/Rock, with a few nods here and there to Blues, Classical, Easy Listening, Jazz etc etc. Pop/Rock was the dominant category though, and the stuff they'd got listed under that heading was amusing and alarming in equal measure.
I care that retail is dying. I don't care that HMV is dying however.
- 20% to angry birds merchandise from what I sawanimatedgif
- vaxorcist0
I was teaching a class at an art college a few years ago, and one student said he had done a project on HMV, another student went on and on talking about the the project she had done on Centers for Disease Control, until I realized she thought that HMV was a sexually transmitted disease..... a bit awkward to deal with her confusion as more and more students figured it out before I could formulate a "teachers way" out of this confusion....